HONORARY AWARD APPLICATIONS DUE FRIDAY

4/21/2009

We are pleased to announce that applications for the 2009 Honorary Awards are available online now and are due by 6pm on May 1, 2009. Now in our 5th year, we have honored over 500 of the brightest and most influential artists from the Off-Off-Broadway community.

In addition to the production awards, each year we we also present 3 honorary awards which are given to companies, organizations and individuals that have made a significant contribution to our community.

THE HONORARY AWARDS ARE:

* The Artistic Achievement Award, presented to an individual who has made a significant artistic contribution to the Off-Off-Broadway community;

* The Stewardship Award, presented to an individual or organization demonstrating a significant contribution to the Off-Off-Broadway community through service, support and leadership;

* The Caffe Cino Fellowship Award, presented to an Off-Off-Broadway theatre company that consistently produces outstanding work. This award also includes a grant ($1,000-$5,000) to be used toward an Off-Off-Broadway production.

These awards are selected by The Honorary Awards Committee which is comprised of people deeply grounded in the Off-Off-Broadway community.

“Receiving the Stewardship Award from NYITA was particularly meaningful to us because it signifies that our peers and colleagues in the indie theater community really value what The New York Theatre Experience has been doing for the past ten years” said 2008 recipient, Martin Denton. “It inspires us want to keep doing a better and better job in the future.”